1/12/2006 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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5 Department. That this land issue was ah consul ing and that it was critical to the coimnuinty for the next ten to one hundred years. The Chairman opened up the discussion so that Committee members could react to tlriis comment, Ted Thels said that it was his opinion, being an observer of almost every comprehensive plan,that they were clinically warm and fumy. One dii.ng, he said, was to articulate what the totality of the Town should look like, public transportation on an incremental basis, If land use was to get physically built-up, the Town should have sufficient revenue. He added that he wanted to take the things that were said on this particular meeting day was a project that was 5-10-15 years down the road. Ms. Guy-ney said that she thought the problem was always a difference of opi on on how you get from here to there. She said that there was nothing wrong with warm and fizzy,it may change over time. She added that the Corrittee should list their action plans in a results oriented way. There were no resources in the Comprehensive Dian, she said. The onnm'ttee needed to do it in an accountable way. If the Committee didn't do that,they were just playing games. Ms. Ellizenberry said that no matter what was on paper,if-not enough money was budgeted, it would sit on a shelf. She added that the Committee knew what the problems were- never enough funding,the department was understaffed and there was no idea or proposal to get additional staff. The Town planner spoke and said that there were 11,000 different parcels, mostly developed under zoning several years ago. Most residential lots were less than 10,000-20,000 square feet* He said that Mashpee was beyond that point and were scattered all over the place and we were stuck with that. The land has been developed by previous zoning. The Committee members have to look realistically at the land we have left. we have sprawl, he added, development scattered all over the place. Mr. StotTs said he wondered how the Cormuittee wanted the center of town to be developed.. The Town Planner added that the group needed a consensus about how they wanted the area to look. The Chairman said that what the Town needed was form based zoning,performance based issues. we only have small parts of town Heft,he added. The Town planner replied that land based zoning and performance based building were other useful things, including conservation land-an updated map of what's already spoken for to get a vision. The Chairman said that there were a number of comments and that the group would start fi•orn right to left. W Miller said that he respected the goverment individuals in the room,but said that government and planning tends to be reactionaa . How far ahead can you look?'}he asked. You can't anticipate all of the changes that are going to take place,whereas on the other hand, he thought the Committee would get totally different responses on what we want our town to look like if we approach as we always do—set up the pelW*meters and the zoning by-laws, hopefully that will meet the needs of the developers and diose who want to perpetuate the cultural attributes of the community and education and all those other good things that you need. But on the other hand,he said, if I bought the Town of ashpee, I would go to four or five professional businesses that are in the business of planning communities and so forth. ashpce Commons is a.small scale of what large scale developers do all around the planet,but what makes it attractive and unique and is in survey something that 76% say that they like that, said Mr. Miller. If we really wanted to project the vision of our town,I think we ought to approach it the way a confident, successful, innovative developer would approach it and backtrack from there,rather than tering to put these little building blocks here and see what